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This chapter defines the commands used to configure a site table entry that contains information about the other end of your dialup network connection, whether dialing in or out, or both. The order of site commands is unimportant except that max-ports must be the last command for continuous or on-demand sites.
For examples using site commands see the chapter "Configuring the Cisco 1020" in the Cisco 1020 User Guide.
This command determines when dial out to a site occurs.
| continuous | The router always keeps the dial-up connection to the site active. If the connection is lost the router will re-dial to the site. |
| demand | The router will dial and establish a connection to the site only when packets are queued for that site. The router creates a network interface and the appropriate routing information to notify the attached local area network of the available connectivity of the remote site. |
| manual | The router will dial to the site only if the Privileged EXEC dial command is used. |
Site Configuration
When switching a location from manual to demand make sure the dial-out connection has been closed before making the change to the site entry. This can be done with the clear interface Privileged EXEC command used on whichever interface(s) are currently in use for that site.
dial
This command identifies the dial group to use when establishing a dial out connection to this site.
| number | The number of the dial group to use, between 0 and 99. |
Site Configuration
Use the dialer rotary-group interface configuration command with the same number to indicate interface(s) which may be used when dialing out to this site.
dialer rotary-group
To configure Serial Line Internet Protocol (SL/IP) encapsulation, use the encapsulation slip site configuration command. To configure Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) encapsulation, use the encapsulation ppp site configuration command.
This command has no arguments or keywords.
Site configuration
SLIP is designed to encapsulate Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams over point-to-point links.
PPP can encapsulate IP, IPX, or both over point-to-point links.
Use the ip access-group site configuration command to control access to an interface. Use the no ip access-group command to remove the specified access group.
| access-list-number | Access list number from 1 through 199 |
| in | Filters on inbound packets |
| out | Filters on outbound packets |
Entering a keyword is strongly recommended, but if a keyword is not specified, out is the default.
Site configuration
For inbound access lists, after receiving a packet, the router checks the packet against the access list. If the access list permits the packet, the router continues to process the packet. If the access list rejects the packet, the router discards the packet and returns an ICMP Host Unreachable message.
For outbound access lists, after receiving and routing a packet to a controlled interface, the router checks the packet against the access list. If the access list permits the packet, the router transmits the packet. If the access list rejects the packet, the router discards the packet and returns an ICMP Host Unreachable message.
Access lists are applied on either outbound or inbound interfaces, or both.
If the specified access list does not exist, all packets are passed.
access-list (standard)
access-list (extended)
show access-lists
Use the ip address site configuration command to set an IP address for the remote site's IP address. Use the no ip address command to remove the specified address.
| ip-address | IP address |
| mask | Mask for the associated IP subnet |
No IP address is defined for an interface.
Site configuration
Use the ip tcp header-compression site configuration command to enable TCP header compression. Use the no ip tcp header-compression command to disable compression.
This command has no arguments or keywords.
Disabled
Site configuration
You can compress the headers of your TCP/IP packets in order to reduce the size of your packets. TCP header compression is supported on serial lines using SLIP or PPP encapsulation. You must enable compression on both ends of a serial connection. RFC 1144 specifies the compression process. Compressing the TCP header can speed up Telnet connections dramatically. In general, TCP header compression is advantageous when your traffic consists of many small packets, not for traffic that consists of large packets. Transaction processing (usually using terminals) tends to use small packets while file transfers use large packets. This feature only compresses the TCP header, so it has no effect on UDP packets or other protocol headers.
When using SLIP, both ends must agree on whether TCP header compression is to be used. PPP will negotiate for header compression and turn it off if either end is unwilling to support it.
To apply a generic output filter to an interface, use the ipx access-group site configuration command. To remove the access list, use the no form of this command.
| access-list-number | Number of the access list. All outgoing packets defined with either standard or extended access lists and forwarded through the interface are filtered by the entries in this access list. For standard access lists, accesslistnumber is a decimal number from 800 to 899. For extended access lists, access-list-number is a decimal number from 900 to 999. |
| in | Apply to IPX packets coming in on the interface. |
| out | Apply to IPX packets before they go out on the interface. |
No filters are predefined.
Site configuration
Generic filters control which packets are sent in or out on an interface based on the packet's source and destination addresses, IPX protocol type, and source and destination socket numbers. You use the standard access-list and extended access-list commands to specify the filtering conditions.
You can apply only one generic filter to an interface for each of in and out.
In the following example, access list 801 is applied to interface Ethernet 0 for outgoing packets.
interface ethernet 0 ipx access-group 801 out
access-list (standard for ipx)
access-list (extended for ipx)
To enable IPX routing to a particular site, use the ipx network site configuration command. To disable IPX routing, use the no form of this command.
| number | Network number. This is an eight-digit hexadecimal number that uniquely identifies a network cable segment. It can be a number in the range 1 to FFFFFFFE. You do not need to specify leading zeros in the network number. For example, for the network number 000000AA you can enter just AA. |
IPX routing is disabled.
Site configuration
Each point-to-point link requires a unique IPX network number, not duplicated by any IPX networks used for Ethernets or servers.
option ipx
routing rip
To control which services are included in Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP) updates sent by the communication server, use the ipx output-network-filter site configuration command. To remove the filter, use the no form of this command.
| access-list-number | Number of the SAP access list. All outgoing service advertisements are filtered by the entries in this access list. The argument access-list-number is a decimal number from 1000 to 1099. |
No filters are predefined.
Site configuration
The communication server applies output SAP filters prior to sending SAP packets.
You can issue only one ipx output-sap-filter command on each interface.
When configuring SAP filters for NetWare 3.11 and later servers, use the server's internal network and node number (the node number is always 0000.0000.0001) as its address in the SAP access-list command. Do not use the network.node address of the particular interface board.
access list (SAP filtering)
This sets the number of bytes of queued traffic required to open an additional dial out line to the remote site.
| number | The number of bytes that can be queued before an additional line is used. |
Site Configuration
This is only used for multiline load-balancing when there are available modems, and requires max-ports to be set higher than 1 and more than one async interface to be configured in the same dialer rotary-group as this site's dialgroup.
Generally interactive terminal traffic will rarely have more than a hundred bytes queued, but file transfers (e.g., FTP) will queue several thousand bytes. These size differences should be used when deciding on a value for load-threshold.
dialer rotary-group
dialgroup
max-ports
This command sets the maximum number of ports to use when dialing out to a site.
| number | If set to 0, this site will not be dialed out to. If set to 1, one line will be used. If set higher than one, multiline load-balancing will be done if modems are available. |
0
Site configuration
For sites which are set to dial-on demand or dial-on continuous setting max-ports to a value of 1 or 2 should be the last configuration entry done for that site, since a non-zero value of max-ports indicates that the site is available for dialing to.
dial-on
dialgroup
load-threshold
To adjust the maximum packet size or maximum transmission unit (MTU) size, use the mtu site configuration command. Use the no mtu command to restore the MTU value to its original default value.
| bytes | Desired size in bytes |
Site configuration
To specify a password for a site that will be dialing in, use the password site configuration command. Use the no form of this command to remove the password.
| password | Character string that specifies the site password. The first character cannot be a number. The string can contain any alphanumeric characters, up to 16 characters. You cannot specify the password in the format number-space-anything. The space after the number causes problems. For example, hello 21 is a legal password, but 21 hello is not. The password checking is case sensitive. For example, the password Secret is different than the password secret. If spaces are included, the password must be enclosed in double quotes. |
No password is specified.
Site configuration
The password is used to authenticate the remote site when it dials in.
The following example sets the password for dial-in site mars to ezzgess4na:
site mars password ezgess4na
When used within a site entry this command controls whether routing updates will be sent or listened to on an interface that site is using. Without arguments it will both broadcast and listen for updates. When used in the no form it neither broadcasts nor listens for routing updates.
routing rip
routing rip {broadcast|listen}
no routing rip
| listen | Listen for routing updates on the interface but do not broadcast them. |
| broadcasting | Send routing updates on the interface but do not listen for them. |
Site Configuration
To set the interval for closing a dial-out connection when there is no input or output traffic, use the sessiontimeout site configuration command. The no session-timeout command removes the timeout definition.
| minutes | Specifies the time interval in minutes, for 0 to 255. |
The default interval is zero, indicating the router maintains the connection indefinitely.
Site configuration
This command sets the interval that the router waits for traffic before closing the connection to a remote computer and returning the port to an idle state. Routing updates are not counted as traffic. The session-timeout is only applied if the router dials out.
This command identifies the chat-script which will be used to dial out to this site.
| scriptname | A script identifier also used in chat-script. |
Site configuration
chat-script
dial
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